Senior Tester

steampunk•McLean, VA

19h•$110,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Steampunk is looking for you to join our team a s a Test Engineer . You will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
Application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured , Postman
Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
Experience with performance and load testing

Nice To Haves

MS Degree
Certifications: CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing) International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST) DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Responsibilities

Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
Manage test data architecture definition and requests
Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following: Data validation testing Functional testing Performance and load testing Usability testing Accessibility (508) testing
Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members